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- Thörnqvist, Christer, 1961-, et al.
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Aligning Corporate Social Responsibility with the United Nations' Sustainability Goals : Trickier than it Seems? A Study of Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Economics. - : Walter de Gruyter. - 1864-6042 .- 2303-5013. ; 9:1, s. 161-177
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the profound mismatch between the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and fundamentals for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The common survival of human life, society, and the global order as we know it, and the need for companies to make profit is not easy. The intractability of the problem is often underestimated in public as well as scientific debate. This article discusses the problem and possible ways to cope with it through 'social entrepreneurship' illustrated here by a study of nine firms in Sweden. The study draws on an amalgamation of Schumpeterian theory about "creative destruction"and the concept of "Emerging Davids vs. Greening Goliaths."
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- Andersson, Monica, et al.
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Determining wages in Europe's SMEs : how relevant are the trade unions?
- 2007
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Ingår i: Transfer - European Review of Labour and Research. - : Sage Publications. - 1024-2589 .- 1996-7284. ; 13:1, s. 55-73
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses wage setting in SMEs in eight European countries, how wage setting in small firms differs from that in larger firms and how trade unions address the issue. The context is the increased decentralisation of wage setting. Wage setting is analysed at four different levels: the workplace, the regional, the industry and the national level. The main finding is that trade unions’ ability to secure higher wages for workers in SMEs depends not upon workplace organisation, but upon well functioning industrial relations institutions. That is, if workers in SMEs earn less than employees inlarger companies, this is due not to the size of the company but to the absence of a comprehensive collective bargaining system that encompasses SMEs.
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- Fransson, Susanne, et al.
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Gender, bargaining strategies and strikes in Sweden
- 2019. - 1
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Ingår i: Nordic equality at a crossroads. - : Routledge. - 9781138620032 - 9780815390732 - 9781351152327 ; , s. 47-68, s. 47-68
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter discusses the effects on women in Swedish working life. It explores the gendered patterns in bargaining strategies and the use of strikes. The chapter argues that gender differences in conflict patterns and bargaining strategies exist both among and within different industries. The collective agreement emerged in an unregulated field of law. Relations between the bargaining parties, as well as disputes over the content and application of collective agreements were solved via self-regulation. The rights of association and of negotiation are main components in the Swedish industrial relations system. The women’s organizations disappeared from the labour market in the heydays of the Swedish model and the solidaristic wage policy, but the different strategies between men and women remained. The new strategy is not only a result of a transformation of the collective bargaining system. The shift was also facilitated by some general changes in the labour market legislation.
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- Fransson, Susanne, et al.
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Some Notes on Workplace Equality Renewal in the Swedish Labour Market
- 2006
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Blackwell Publishing. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 13:6, s. 606-620
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2001, Swedish authorities imposed a new obligation upon all firms with ten or more employees to undertake annual wage surveys, ‘workplace equality audits’ in which it is possible to ascertain, remedy and prevent unwarranted wage differentials and other unfair employment terms between men and women. An important implication of the new system, called ‘workplace equality renewal’ (självsanering), is that, at the level of the firm all Swedish employers must explain what they mean by work of ‘equal value’ as opposed to ‘different value’. This article discusses the practical pros and cons of the new system, and considers how the surveys can be used in research into the present state of gendered work division. A main finding is that the introduction of this new legislation in the long run might change the Swedish industrial relations system as well as the preconditions for many companies’ human resource management policies. Yet, neither the governmental agencies involved nor the parties’ confederate organizations have been able to clarify what the issue is really about to the single, small business employer or to the local trade union branches. Many employers find any interference, whatever it may be, threatening and trade unions have not realized the potentialities of the system from an employee perspective, potentialities connected to the fact that companies are now more or less forced to make transparent their wage policies at large.
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- Gill-McLure, Whyeda, et al.
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Reconstructing resistance and renewal in public service unionism in the twenty-first century : lessons from a century of war and peace
- 2018
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Ingår i: Labor history. - : Routledge. - 0023-656X .- 1469-9702. ; 59:1, s. 3-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This special issue uses the occasion of the centenary of the Whitley Commission Reports to illuminate the contemporary crisis in public service industrial relations from a historical perspective. In all six countries studiedBritain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the USApublic service employment is labour intensive and quantitatively significant in the overall economy. Public services have also been major targets of neoliberal reforms, starting in the UK and the USA at the turn of the 1980s and in the other countries about a decade later. In addition, the relatively high union density and the political dimension of public services and public union strategies have been major targets of new public management and more latterly austerity. However, the regressive period has had a differential impact in different countries. In the liberal market economies of the UK and the USA, the neoliberal turn has destabilised traditional patterns of public sector industrial relations to greatest effect. While in the more coordinated market economies, traditional arrangements and values have been more resistant to austerity and neoliberal reforms. We attempt to shed light on these differential impacts through a critical analysis of the historical evolution of public sector industrial relations in each country.
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- Müller, Andrea, et al.
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Public sector labour relations in four European countries compared : Long-term convergence and short-term divergences?
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper focuses on the impact of the 2007/2008 financial and economic crisis on the public sector and its labour relations in Spain, the UK, Sweden and Germany. The analysis of the contextual background - general and societal economic developments as well as industrial relations - in which such transformations happened embeds the comparison of the four country case studies. Our findings show that the crisis and austerity policies furthered some short-term divergent developments of the public sectors in the countries considered but long-term convergence can be also expected. Some theoretical conclusions from these mixed developments in the aftermath of the crisis are drawn.
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- Schmidt, Werner, et al.
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Austerity and public sector trade union power : Before and after the crisis
- 2019
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Ingår i: European journal of industrial relations. - ENGLAND : Sage Publications. - 0959-6801 .- 1461-7129. ; 25:2, s. 129-145
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We use a power resources approach to examine the effects of the 2008-2009 financial and economic crisis on public sector trade union power in Germany, Spain, Sweden and the UK, comparing structural, organizational, institutional, societal and political power resources before and after the crisis. Unions' power resources have (at least temporarily) weakened in Spain, with a similar but less pronounced trend in the UK; whereas in Sweden and Germany, one can detect ambiguous but slightly positive signals, which reflect neither the crisis nor opposition to austerity. As well as structural, organizational and institutional power resources, societal and political resources are decisive for public sector trade unions.
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- Stokke, Torgeir Aarvaag, et al.
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Strikes and Collective Bargaining in the Nordic Countries
- 2001
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Ingår i: European journal of industrial relations. - : Sage Publications. - 0959-6801 .- 1461-7129. ; 7:3, s. 245-267
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses the different strike profiles in the Nordic countries, with particular stress on the role of collective bargaining. First, it compares working days lost during the past couple of decades in a broad sample of European countries. Denmark, Norway and Sweden are identified as belonging to a `middle' group, while Finland is an outlier. Second, it analyses the number of strikes, which shows enormous differences between the Nordic countries. Possible methodological explanations are considered, but mostly rejected; instead, the causes are located in the historical development of collective bargaining, and in details concerning the peace obligation and local bargaining practices. The recent dramatic fall in working days lost in most other European countries is found also in Finland and Sweden, but not in Denmark and Norway. The research emphasizes factors such as unemployment, workplace reforms and local bargaining. The conclusions are also related to previous findings from the comparative analysis of industrial conflict.
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- Thörnquist, Annette, et al.
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Do public sector industrial relations challenge the Swedish model?
- 2018
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Ingår i: Labor history. - : Routledge. - 0023-656X .- 1469-9702. ; 59:1, s. 87-104
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses recent developments in public sector labour relations in Sweden from a historical, gender and power relations perspective. The main question is whether these trends challenge the established Swedish industrial relations system. Our point of departure - yet chronologically also the point of arrival - is the Swedish Municipal Workers' Union, Kommunal's, exit from the coordinated wage setting model within the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (Landsorganisationen, LO) in 2015/2016. The immediate reason was that Kommunal, representing one-third of the LO members, including many low-paid women, turned down the LO's proposal on a general wage increase for low-wage groups. Instead, Kommunal urged to upgrade wages for a specific member group, the auxiliary nurses. This broke an almost uninterrupted 20-year-long period of labour market cooperation and coordination that was introduced in 1997 through the so-called Industry Agreement (Industriavtalet). This agreement was launched in the wake of the deep financial crisis in the early 1990s, and the neoliberal move towards a complete decentralization of pay negotiations. How should this move by Kommunal be interpreted? Why, and when, has the centralized system become a straitjacket for Kommunal, when for decades it seemingly was a precondition for both private and public union strength?
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